Improved metallic broom-head



UNITED STATns PaTnNT Ormes.

ORLANDO LANE CASTLE, OF UPPER ALTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED NIETLLIC BROOlVlHEAD.

Speeileaton .forming part of Letters Patent No. 4&5 l 5, datrd October 4, 1334.

T0 all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that LORLANDO LANE Cas'rLn, of Upper Alton, in the eountyof Madison and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Metallic Broom-Head for containing and holding` fast the broomstraw when used for brooms; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to the aceonr panyiug drawings, forming part of this specioation, in whioh- Figure l is a view of the brooinhead when shut. Fig. 2 is a transparent view of the saine, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section in the line of B B and O C.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corre'.

spending parts in the several figures.

A A is a bivalvular metallic sheath of any desirable shape and size for containing the straw, hinged together at the base by the hinge h, so as to be opened and shut at pleasure, each Valve being furnished with arow of teeth, B B, arranged transversely across its inner .surface to eo-operate in holding fast the straw.

G O are cross-bars for staying the interior edges of the valves, and especially for coinpressing the straw against the sides and teeth ot' the opposite valves, A A, respectively.

K is a metallic rod passing longitudinally through the center of the sheath by an orifice, o, at the base, terminating externally in the handle H, and internally passing between the cross-bars C O when the valves A A are shut, and operating as a key to fasten them ljrmlytogether, the said key being held to its place by the action of the spring s, arranged for that purpose.

The operation of the whole is suoli that when the sheath is opened by withdrawing the key K and the valves A A are filled with the straw and then pressed together the crossbars C G compress the straw, each against the inner side and teeth ofthe opposite valve,and as the pressure proceeds finally pass by each other, leaving an aperture between them, into which the key Kis thrust, and retained bythe spring S, thus forming a strong, compact, and useful household implement, which can be replenished with straw at pleasure by repeating the proeessjust described.

Now, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. rIhe use of a bivalvular hinged metallic sheath for containing` the straw, arranged and operating substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the cross-bars O C with the sheath A A and the key K, applied, arranged, and operating substantially as dcscribed, for the purpose set forth.

ORL ANDO LANE CASTLE.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN A. MaXnY, A. J. DELaNo. 

